lallan
11-22-2004, 01:59 PM
Perez should stop caring 4 marketing and should work 4 the team & should give full freedom 2 the coach but I am pretty sure Garcia Remon is not the dominant type, u could just see it ezily, but still, the team needs players in DM position and in January they must get them, Robinho is not a bad move either, they can take him give him on loan until Figo retires and get him back but should definitely make him a Madrid player in January...
If Woodgate doesnt recover by new years I think they should also look 4 a CB, and God only knows when will Samuel start coping with the new environment...
Yes they played great against Albacete but we keep 4getting it was Albacete!!!!! The galacticos of the team should realize they can have another disastrous year and should work harder in training, I can see Figo, Becks & Raul out of the superstars who really put an effort while playing, they try 2 give it their all, Zidane 2 but sometimes it seems he takes it 2 ez and he himself said the midfielders have 2 get in a better physical shape and he mentioned Figo as an example(and boy does Figo have the guts 2 play under pressure, just playing against Barca at Nou Camp is pressure enough but being booed the moment he touched the ball and still he managed 2 be the best player from the Madrid side, thats something, this man plays with PASSION & a WINNING ATTITUDE, every1 should try 2 be like him)...
The season isnt over and they still have time 2 recover but they have 2 work 2gether & perez especially should stop marketing & focus on the team because the fans of Real want TROPHIES & they r still in all 3 championships as of now.........
I read this interesting article at timesonline.co.uk and I agree on most of the points made, here is the article by the way:
Laporta builds Barça's future
By Stephen Burgen
BARCELONA’S EMPHATIC WIN OVER Real Madrid at the weekend was not just a victory for the club, which has undergone a root-and-branch revolution over the past 18 months, but a triumph for football over marketing. This time around the headline writers didn’t reach for the “galácticos fall to earth� metaphors because it is some time since Real were in any way extraterrestrial. There was a poignant moment in the second half when David Beckham, who rejected the vainglorious losers of Barcelona for vain and all-conquering Madrid, was substituted by his club’s latest advertising hoarding — Michael Owen.
This was how it all began, one night in June last year, when Raúl and Ronaldo were scoring the goals that would bring Real their 29th league title at the very moment that the outsider, Joan Laporta, who had built his campaign around the promise that he would bring Beckham to the Nou Camp, was being named as the runaway winner of the Barcelona presidency. Playing the Beckham card was smart and it was flash but, more importantly, it was the last flash thing Laporta did, unless you count signing Ronaldinho, which at the time seemed little more than a consolation prize. On the other hand Florentino Pérez, the Real president, is only ever flash.
Laporta took over a club that was saddled with enormous debts and a second-rate squad on top-flight salaries. In his first season he had little room for manoeuvre and with Frank Rijkaard in charge and Ronaldinho as the only new face, Barça had a disastrous start to the season and, by the Christmas break, were 18 points behind Real. Then they borrowed Edgar Davids from Juventus for the second half of the season and were all but unbeatable, finishing second and, more importantly, above Real.
You get the impression with Pérez that he discusses his signings with his marketing department and only then does he consult the bench. Laporta talks to his assistants, Sandro Rosell and Txiki Begiristain, the latter a former Barcelona star, as well as to Rijkaard, about what sort of players they need. What they didn’t need was the highly-paid, low-scoring Patrick Kluivert and Javier Saviola, or Marc Overmars, who was well past it, and they and a brace of other Dutchmen were shown the door.
Then, having made a huge dent in the salary bill, they went shopping and they shopped well and, at the risk of stating the obvious, they shopped for football players. Michael Owen is a football player, but that’s not why Pérez signed him.
Having shipped out Kluivert and Saviola, Barça had no strikers, so they got Henrik Larsson on a free transfer from Celtic. They had no right back, so they bought, cheaply, Juliano Belletti, the Brazilian who has transformed the side and left Carles Puyol free to take care of business in the middle. To keep Ronaldinho and Xavi, a local boy, company in midfield, they acquired two of the outstanding players from AS Monaco, the European Cup finalists, Ludovic Giuly, of France, and Deco, of Portugal. And then to cap it off, in came Samuel Eto’o from Mallorca, who has lost no time in becoming the league’s top goalscorer.
Not one of these players is likely to shift as many shirts as Owen, but the lesson that Pérez is learning is that this flash galáctico stuff is all very well but only if you win at football and, since Beckham signed, Real haven’t won a thing. If there’s a lesson in this, it’s that Laporta is 100 per cent Barcelona while Pérez is 100 per cent Pérez. That’s the difference.
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If Woodgate doesnt recover by new years I think they should also look 4 a CB, and God only knows when will Samuel start coping with the new environment...
Yes they played great against Albacete but we keep 4getting it was Albacete!!!!! The galacticos of the team should realize they can have another disastrous year and should work harder in training, I can see Figo, Becks & Raul out of the superstars who really put an effort while playing, they try 2 give it their all, Zidane 2 but sometimes it seems he takes it 2 ez and he himself said the midfielders have 2 get in a better physical shape and he mentioned Figo as an example(and boy does Figo have the guts 2 play under pressure, just playing against Barca at Nou Camp is pressure enough but being booed the moment he touched the ball and still he managed 2 be the best player from the Madrid side, thats something, this man plays with PASSION & a WINNING ATTITUDE, every1 should try 2 be like him)...
The season isnt over and they still have time 2 recover but they have 2 work 2gether & perez especially should stop marketing & focus on the team because the fans of Real want TROPHIES & they r still in all 3 championships as of now.........
I read this interesting article at timesonline.co.uk and I agree on most of the points made, here is the article by the way:
Laporta builds Barça's future
By Stephen Burgen
BARCELONA’S EMPHATIC WIN OVER Real Madrid at the weekend was not just a victory for the club, which has undergone a root-and-branch revolution over the past 18 months, but a triumph for football over marketing. This time around the headline writers didn’t reach for the “galácticos fall to earth� metaphors because it is some time since Real were in any way extraterrestrial. There was a poignant moment in the second half when David Beckham, who rejected the vainglorious losers of Barcelona for vain and all-conquering Madrid, was substituted by his club’s latest advertising hoarding — Michael Owen.
This was how it all began, one night in June last year, when Raúl and Ronaldo were scoring the goals that would bring Real their 29th league title at the very moment that the outsider, Joan Laporta, who had built his campaign around the promise that he would bring Beckham to the Nou Camp, was being named as the runaway winner of the Barcelona presidency. Playing the Beckham card was smart and it was flash but, more importantly, it was the last flash thing Laporta did, unless you count signing Ronaldinho, which at the time seemed little more than a consolation prize. On the other hand Florentino Pérez, the Real president, is only ever flash.
Laporta took over a club that was saddled with enormous debts and a second-rate squad on top-flight salaries. In his first season he had little room for manoeuvre and with Frank Rijkaard in charge and Ronaldinho as the only new face, Barça had a disastrous start to the season and, by the Christmas break, were 18 points behind Real. Then they borrowed Edgar Davids from Juventus for the second half of the season and were all but unbeatable, finishing second and, more importantly, above Real.
You get the impression with Pérez that he discusses his signings with his marketing department and only then does he consult the bench. Laporta talks to his assistants, Sandro Rosell and Txiki Begiristain, the latter a former Barcelona star, as well as to Rijkaard, about what sort of players they need. What they didn’t need was the highly-paid, low-scoring Patrick Kluivert and Javier Saviola, or Marc Overmars, who was well past it, and they and a brace of other Dutchmen were shown the door.
Then, having made a huge dent in the salary bill, they went shopping and they shopped well and, at the risk of stating the obvious, they shopped for football players. Michael Owen is a football player, but that’s not why Pérez signed him.
Having shipped out Kluivert and Saviola, Barça had no strikers, so they got Henrik Larsson on a free transfer from Celtic. They had no right back, so they bought, cheaply, Juliano Belletti, the Brazilian who has transformed the side and left Carles Puyol free to take care of business in the middle. To keep Ronaldinho and Xavi, a local boy, company in midfield, they acquired two of the outstanding players from AS Monaco, the European Cup finalists, Ludovic Giuly, of France, and Deco, of Portugal. And then to cap it off, in came Samuel Eto’o from Mallorca, who has lost no time in becoming the league’s top goalscorer.
Not one of these players is likely to shift as many shirts as Owen, but the lesson that Pérez is learning is that this flash galáctico stuff is all very well but only if you win at football and, since Beckham signed, Real haven’t won a thing. If there’s a lesson in this, it’s that Laporta is 100 per cent Barcelona while Pérez is 100 per cent Pérez. That’s the difference.
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